Sorry if that last comment offended some of you.
We all carry the weight of past decisions made by our leaders.

When I was young and visiting Washington DC on a school trip, I witnessed a cannonade salute to the visiting Shah of Iran from atop the Washington Monument (Nixon was still in office at the White House).

Obviously, the United States has made some bad decisions in politics and policies.

But you're not likely to make us feel bad about our actions during WWII.
We felt justified.

And ask our German friends, would your mothers and fathers rather have been greeted by our troops on the Western Front or the Russians on the Eastern Front?

Anyone else want to offer support to the Russians?
They killed far more people than the Germans ever did (including many of their own).